The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway, 1982):
BFI Southbank, NFT1, 2pm; 6.30pm; NFT2, 8.40pm
This re-release, part of the Peter Greenaway season at BFI Southbank, starts an extended run at the cinema on November 11th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
British writer-director Peter Greenaway’s 1982 film is entertaining as
an avant-garde exercise cleverly adapted to commercial ends. In
17th-century England a landscape artist makes an agreement with the wife
of a wealthy landowner to trade his work for her sexual favors. All
goes well until mysterious objects begin to clutter the grounds (and the
artist’s sketches), pointing to a sinister plot. Greenaway’s
structuralist pedigree is evident in his elaborate visual plan, which
puts both artist and audience at the mercy of incomprehensible images.
Yet the film’s mass appeal is located in its dry and tony
pseudo-Restoration dialogue, which skirts the sexual issues with a
fashionable callousness.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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